Unable to install 5.4 from CDROM

[Mark Jones]

On 9/16/05, Gavin McDougall <lists at mediamill.co.za> wrote:
> Mark Jones wrote:
> > I'm having an odd problem installing 5.4 release from CDROM.
> >
> > The machine is an HP ProLiant DL145. It didn't come with a CDROM drive, I
> > borrowed one from a Dell PowerEdge SC1425.
> > The CDs are good, I've installed on other machines with them - in fact, on
> > the same machine that I borrowed the CDROM from.
> >
> > I can boot from the CD with no problem. I go through sysinstall all the way
> > through the part where I select what sources to install. Sysinstall writes
> > the MBR and fsck's the drive with no problem. But then when it goes to
> > install the source and packages from CD, it says it can't read the CD.
> >
> > Any idea what's going on here?
> 
> Hi Mark,
> 
> Some cdrom drives read better than others and some read well only when
> they want to.
> 
> It sounds like it could be one of two things:-
> 
> * Either your cdrom drive is fscked....or near about.
>
> * Or you have a dodgy copy of 5.4.

The cdrom drive is OK ... I put it back in it's original server and
installed linux there. I'm 99% sure now that I damaged my freebsd CD
sometime after I last used it. Since the newer server needs it's own
cdrom anyway, I'll just be lazy and order one, then see how it goes.

Thanks for your comments!

-- 
Mark